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Giveaway Day—Heartwarming Possibilities
Newly-released Heartwarming Possibilities is true to its title. Show off your love for handmade with these new, colorful designs from Lynda Milligan and Nancy Smith, founders of Possibilities. Stitch up rays of sunshine, leafy green trees, and delightful dancers to warm up your home and share your heart with family and friends.
These four sweet and festive projects are part of our popular Pattern Pack series…a quilt, two wall-hangings, and a tote combine piecing with easy fusible appliqué. Plus you can mix and match the different appliqué (Continue Reading...)
Giveaway Day—One Line at a Time, Encore
Charlotte Warr Andersen has worked her magic once again with One Line at a Time, Encore. This sequel to her tremendously popular One Line at a Time includes 35 new geometric machine-quilting designs. As the title says, you stitch these wonderfully interesting designs one line at a time. It’s as easy as that.
Just when I thought I’d run out of basic ideas for ways to structure geometric patterns, I spotted several more in the background of a TV show the other night. (Continue Reading...)
This week’s giveaway—it’s all about free-form!
Yay!! Can you see me doing a little happy dance over here? Rayna Gillman’s new book, Create Your Own Free-Form Quilts, is my latest obsession. I think the book’s subtitle says it all…A Stress-Free Journey to Original Design. Two things that really float my own creative boat are “stress-free” and “original design.” One of Rayna’s personal tenets of design is also my own artistic mantra…there’s no such thing as a mistake!
This book shows you how to use free-form cutting and (Continue Reading...)
50 Little Paper-Pieced Blocks—and a giveaway!
Carol Doak has put together the perfect tools to bring quilters and cardmakers together…her new book, 50 Little Paper-Pieced Blocks, is filled with adorable, perfectly-pieced 3″ quilt blocks in a variety of themes including stars, hearts, flowers, a birthday cake…even crayons, an airplane, and a candlestick!
This book is also a great intro to paper piecing for those of us (ok so maybe it’s just me) who have been a little afraid to try.
Once you’ve made all your favorite designs from (Continue Reading...)
Mickey Lawler’s SkyQuilts…with a giveaway!
The sky has a magic about it. Do you remember lying on your back on the cool grass, watching summer clouds drifting along in slow motion and feeling yourself lifted up as if you had become part of the vast sky above? Wherever we are on this planet, the sky surrounds, inspires, sometimes awes, and often gentles us. —Mickey Lawler
Author Mickey Lawler has an incredible ability to embrace and transfer the immense beauty of skies onto fabric.
In her newly-released book, (Continue Reading...)
Special Delivery Quilts #2 with Patrick Lose — and a giveaway!
Attention, Patrick Lose fans—Patrick has written another wonderful new book, and this time it’s all about baby quilts! Longtime Lose fans will remember his first baby quilt book, Special Delivery Quilts, which featured the phenomenally popular teddy bear quilt pattern called “I Love You This Much.” In this new book, you’ll find 10 adorable new quilt patterns PLUS that old favorite, brought back as a bonus.
As the Developmental Editor for three of Patrick’s books, I’ve had the pleasure of chatting (Continue Reading...)
New giveaway: Inspired by Traditions
Jennifer Chiaverini has done it again with Traditions from Elm Creek Quilts. Her words become a visual treat, as some of the quilts she describes in her last six Elm Creek Quilts novels take over the pages of her fifth quilting book.
Fans, it’s not just your imagination anymore; this is how the quilt looks. It’s as beautiful as you thought it would be, and here are the instructions to make it for yourself.
Being able to make the quilts that entwine in Jennifer’s (Continue Reading...)
New giveaway: I love architecture, don’t you?
Looking for inspiration? You’ve found it! The Art of Quilts Postcard Collection—Architecture will give you lots of ideas with 30 postcards, each featuring a beautiful quilt. You can win a set for yourself – details for entering to win are at the end of this post.
Here are just a few of the cards that might inspire you to…
…create texture with the fabric paint:
…create luminosity to make things glow:
Scrap Republic – Blog Tour!
Do you love celebrating color? Then get ready…Emily Cier invites you to the Scrap Republic blog tour, running Monday 10/3/11 through Tuesday 10/11/11.
Out of the blue, Scrap Republic has arrived! And to give everybody a good look at the rainbow of scrappy modern quilts that one can create, I thought this would be a golden opportunity to cut through the red tape and ask a colorful array of folks to take a look at the book through glasses tinted their (Continue Reading...)
Giveaway—Colorful Quilts for Fabric Lovers
My friend Patty had recently sorted, folded and stacked most of my fabric, and I was able to see what a lot of rich, jewel-toned yardage I have. So I was looking for a project that would use some of my large stash of colors, in a somewhat monochromatic theme.
I found more than one gorgeous quilt to make in our new book, Colorful Quilts for Fabric Lovers by Amy Walsh and Janine Burke.
This book showcases ten new colorful quilt projects that are (Continue Reading...)
